Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, has filed an annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showing bitcoin holdings with a fair value of almost $2 billion at the end of December. The company sees crypto as both an investment and liquid alternative to cash. Tesla Has $2 Billion in Bitcoin Tesla filed an annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday. “We continue adapting our investment strategy to meet our liquidity and risk objectives, such as investing in U.S. government and other marketable…
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Tornado Cash Co-Founder Says the Mixer Protocol Is Unstoppable
The co-founder of Ethereum’s best-known coin mixing service says that privacy protocols are defending people’s rights to financial privacy. Tornado Cash, a mixer that allows users to obfuscate their digital trail on the Ethereum blockchain, has been at the center of attention since it was revealed last week that hackers were using it to mix stolen ether from digital assets exchange Crypto.com. In an interview with CoinDesk, co-founder, Roman Semenov said that the team has little control over what its users do with the protocol as it’s designed to be…
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Is Tornado Cash Complicit in Laundering Crypto? It’s Complicated, Says Former Agent
“Pretend I’m running away from police with a bag of cash, and jumping over fences, trying to evade capture… that’s not money laundering,” he said. “If Tornado Cash knows who deposited the money, and who took it out, that’s not money laundering.” Source
Bank of America Says UK CBDC Would Be More Than a Digital Form of Cash
Given that consumers hold only small amounts in cash, there would be greater convenience in switching a current account into Britcoins, BoA said. That could be an area of concern for commercial banks. Checking accounts, or current accounts as they are called in the U.K., are the lifeblood of commercial banks’ business models, providing them with stable funding over a long term. Source
Block’s Cash App Is Finally Integrating the Lightning Network
Block, formerly known as Square, is integrating the Lightning Network into its popular Cash App, a move first promised in 2019. The company said the feature should be available to all U.S. Cash App users, except those in New York State, in the coming weeks. Source
Crypto.com’s Stolen Ether Being Laundered Via Tornado Cash
The $15 million in ether (4,600 ETH) stolen from Singapore-based Crypto.com is currently being laundered via Tornado Cash, an Ethereum Mixer, according to on-chain data. Tornado Cash is a ETH mixer protocol that promises to improve transaction privacy by obscuring the on-chain link between the source and recipient of ether. The protocol launched in early 2020. On-chain data first spotted by security consultancy Peck Shield suggests that the 4,600 ether is being sent through the mixer in batches of 100 ether. While some say that mixer protocols, or cryptocurrency tumblers,…
How To Turn Unused Internet Bandwidth Into Cash?
Monetizing your internet connection According to OpenVault’s broadband study from 2021, the average US household uses approximately 435GB of data per month. However, many internet service providers (ISPs) offer 1TB+ monthly data allowances or unlimited data plans. Many internet users waste hundreds of millions of gigabytes worth of unused bandwidth every month. Now there is an innovative technology called PKT, which enables internet-connected customers to earn passive income from a home or office internet connection worldwide. PKT is not a company and has no investors or CEO. It is a…
Cash App Set To Bring Bitcoin Lightning Network To Its 36 Million Users
The Lightning Network has been integrated into Cash App, a peer-to-peer payment service operated by Block, previously Square Inc. The feature allows transactions between parties that aren’t connected to the blockchain network. It was created to address the scalability issues with the flagship cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Lightning Important For Speedy Transactions Block (previously Square), a fintech firm co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, owns Cash App. The news of the BTC L2 integration was announced as a notification on the official Cash App app, which Crypto Twitter picked up: The…
Cash App integrates Bitcoin Lightning Network for faster BTC transfers
Popular mobile payment service Cash App has integrated the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network as a part of an update, allowing faster and cheaper BTC transfers using the Layer 2 (L2) payment protocol. Cash App is developed and owned by Block (formerly Square), a fintech firm co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The announcement of the BTC L2 integration was shared as a notification on the official Cash App application, which made its way through to Crypto Twitter: The news are real! @CashApp added #Bitcoin Lightning ⚡️Network pic.twitter.com/zbbdqcx0dC — Yegor…